4901:1-13-01
Definitions.

(B)
"Business day" means, for purposes of initiation
or installation of service, a day when a gas or natural gas company performs
regularly scheduled installation and, for all other purposes, a day when the
provider observes regularly scheduled customer service office hours.

(D)
"Company" means a
gas or natural gas company as defined in section
4905.03 of the Revised Code.

(E)
"Consumer" means any person who receives service
from a gas or natural gas company.

(F)
"Competitive retail natural gas service" has the meaning set forth in section
4929.01 of the Revised Code.

(G)
"Customer" means any person who has an agreement,
by contract and/or tariff, with a gas or natural gas company to receive service
or any person who requests or makes application for service from a gas or
natural gas company.

(H)
"Customer
premises" means the residence(s), building(s), or office(s) of a customer.

(I)
"Fraudulent practice" means an intentional
misrepresentation or concealment of a material fact that the gas or natural gas
company relies on to its detriment. Fraudulent practice does not include
tampering or unauthorized reconnection of gas service.

(J)
"Gas company" means a company that meets the definition
of a gas company set
forth in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code and
that alsomeets the definition of a public utility under section
4905.02 of the Revised Code.

(K)
"Governmental aggregator" shall have the
meaning set forth in section
4929.01 of the Revised
Code.

(L)
"Manometer" means an instrument for measuring the pressure of gas or natural
gas.

(M)
"Natural gas
company" means a company that meets the definition of a
natural gas company
set forth in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code and
that
also meets the definition of a public utility under section
4905.02 of the Revised Code.

(N)
"Nonresidential gas service" means a gas or
natural gas service provided to any location where the use is primarily of a
business, professional, institutional, or occupational nature.

(W)
"Tampering" means to interfere with, damage, or bypass
a utility meter, gas line, or gas facilities with the intent to impede the
correct registration of a meter or the proper functions of a gas line or gas
facilities so far as to reduce the amount of utility service that is registered
on or reported by the meter. Tampering includes the unauthorized reconnection
of a utility meter, gas line, or gas facility that has been disconnected by the
utility.

(X)
"TTY"
means text telephone yoke as defined in
47 C.F.R.
64.601, effective as
of the date set forth in paragraph (I) of rule
4901:1-13-02 of the
Administrative Code.